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One of the most difficult parts about learning a programming language is that everything is interrelated. It often seems impossible to understand anything before you know everything. In this chapter, we describe the C essentials—what you need to know to write your first programs. To avoid getting bogged down in details, we gloss over some of the intricacies of the C language in this chapter. In later chapters, we provide a more thorough discussion of the topics introduced in this chapter.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
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Darnell, P.A., Margolis, P.E. (1996). C Essentials. In: C A Software Engineering Approach. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4020-4_3
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